PHPMailer does not give error message? - php

Question

Im creating a little Email Script at the Moment with PHPMailer + SMTP Authentication. I tried now sending an E-Mail using a wrong Passwort - but it still gives back "true" for success... anyone have any idea?`
Here is My Function, that i use to call sendmail:
$erfolg_email = true;
foreach($empfaenger as $value)
{
$response = $this->sendMail($smtp, $value, $content, $files);
if($response != true)
{
return $response;
$erfolg_email = false;
}
}
And here is my PHPMailer Function
function sendMail($smtp, $empfaenger, $content, $attachements)
{
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
try{
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = $smtp['SMTP'];
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Port = $smtp['Port'];
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
if($smtp['Domain'] != '')
{
$username = $smtp['Username']."#".$smtp['Domain'];
}else
{
$username = $smtp['Username'];
}
$mail->Username = $username; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = $smtp['Password']; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
);
$mail->From = $smtp['Email_Address'];
$mail->AddAddress($empfaenger);
$mail->WordWrap = 50;
$mail->isHTML(true);
foreach($attachements as $value)
{
$mail->AddAttachment($value);
}
$mail->Subject = "Mahnung";
$mail->Body = $content;
$mail->AltBody = "Sie haben offene Posten";
if($mail->Send() == true)
{
echo $mail->ErrorInfo;
return $mail->ErrorInfo;
}else
{
return $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
return $e->errorMessage(); //Pretty error messages from PHPMailer
} catch (Exception $e) {
return $e->getMessage(); //Boring error messages from anything else!
}
}
$smtp contains an array with all the SMTP INformation, Email address, Signature, Smtp Server, Port, Username, Password and SSL Usage...
I am pretty sure, I am using the wrong username and password, as no Email is getting through - but i still get "true" as a result of the send mail function... its not even echoing the error. I did even try to give an Error Message, when sending is successfull... But nothing
Any help is apreciated!
Cheers

Answer 1

Your function sendMail doesn't return a boolean. Since it's an array / object the result is always true in this case. Try printing $response before your if statement and you will see the error.

Answer 2

In your php mailer function file itself you can add this coding at the last:
$send = $mail->Send(); //Send the mails
if($send){
echo '<center><h3>Mail sent successfully</h3></center>';
}
else{
echo '<center><h3>Mail error: </h3></center>'.$mail->ErrorInfo;
}
}